Abstract

In these lecture notes we will give a very basic introduction to supermassive black holes. We derive the basic luminosity expected for accretion and introduce the Eddington limit. Kinematical evidence for black holes in the centers of galaxies from optical and radio spectroscopy is discussed as well as the link between black holes and host galaxy properties. Finally we consider the evidence for the black hole in the Galactic Center.

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